Life — September 12, 1912 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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City Nephew EXPENSE, “SEEMS A SIN TO WASTE IT, 0” THAT TO FIX UP AN ACRE.” arly all college presidents, active or retired, are doctors, and are so ad- dressed in ordinary intercourse. Then what is the disparagement that is im- plied in the connection of this title with Mr. Wilson? Is it the idea that the calling of an educator or a writer invites popular disesteem or distrust? If that is the case, it is high time that notion was corrected, and Dr. Wil- son's preferment is a timely means of setting it right We believe Editor Harvey of Har- per's Weekly is a Doctor of Laws of the University of Nevada, and prob- ably Editor Hapgood of Collier's is also a doctor of something by this time. These gentlemen should use their academic titles more and not fidget because folks properly and nat- urally assign to Dr. Wilson the title that best expresses his services in the past. But it 1s no more manners for Colonel Roosevelt to speak of the Democratic candidate, as he in his “confession.” as “ Professor Wilson,” than it would be to speak of the Colonel as “ Major Roosevelt.” Dr. Wilson was a professor, but got rromoted to be president. His hon- rary title, besides “Doctor,” is not “ Professor,” but “ President.” does ! THAT WAS FOUND IN TEXAS AND SET UP HERE AT GREAT YE COULD GIT ENOUGH HONE FERTILIZER OUT HE death of General Booth of the Salvation Army, full of years and honors, invites one to wonder whether our great contemporary American Improver of Mankind will nally show as good a record of bene- ts done as the great Salvationist General Booth was zealously inter- ested for more than three-score years in making people better and inciden- tally in ameliorating the material con- ditions of their lives. He was a re- markable organizer, and in course of time set up and directed a remarkable machine, And he ran it like an auto- crat, and in all these things he was something like our Bull Moose Colonel. But in this he was different; that he stuck to one line—religion—and worked with that, and did not, so far as we know, mix it up with polities. His idea was to make men better, and so improve the world; to change the heart, with resulting improvement in deportment, His work may at times have influenced legislation, but so far 1755 as we know he never tried to legis- late men into righteousness, The Bull Moosers sing hymns and are moved by emotions that are more religious than political, but their hope of helping and bettering mankind scems to lie altogether in legislative improvements, and in downing all the hosses except the Colonel, and carry- ing him back into the White House. We guess it will turn out that Gen- eral Booth’s method was more fruit- ful of lasting results than theirs. They mix up too many things that do not work harmoniously together. When religion becomes political it tends to. stifle liberty. We suspect there is a danger of a like result when politics become religious. Best keep them distinct. Make men_ religious, Iut not parties. The gospel was not meant to be translated into Jaw. Righteousness can hardly be statutory, much less salvation. made HERE continues to be in the papers a great deal about contributions hy various malefactors to Mr. Roose- velt’s campaign fund in 1904. His de- nials of all charges are prompt, com- prehensive, particular and emphatic, hut such is the persistence of the ac- cusations, and so specitic are their de- tails that there is real danger that in the minds of the careless the Idealist of Armageddon will come to be con- s of the nected with political subsid: unregenerate. Of course. what happened to the Colonel when he was still a member and leader of the bad old Republican party ought not to count against him now that he has broken with his past He ought to say so, but no, he is as sensitive about his past as though he had never broken with it. He will have it that he was perfectly good, even when he was a Republican, and denies and retorts and produces let- ters to prove it We commend to him the example of St. Paul, who regretted and deplored his persecution of the saints, but never denied it and suffered it to prejudice his efforts as an apostle. never comicbooks.com